Now in its 1oth year, Whitbourne Annual hedging competition will take place on Saturday, March 3 at the same venue as last year – Churchfield Orchard, Whitbourne, Worcestershire.

Two neighbouring young farmers in Powys are taking advantage of a new initiative to help boost profits from their sheep flocks.

Livestock farmers are being urged to be vigilant following confirmation by the Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency (AHVLA) of an outbreak of the Schmallenberg Virus (SBV) in the UK for the first time.

Landowners and farmers from two carefully-selected areas are now able to apply for licences to trial new measures designed to tackle the devastating impact of bovine TB.

‘Disappointing and a missed opportunity’ is how farming leaders in England have described the release of the European Commission’s extensively leaked Common Agriculture Policy Reform proposals.

BASIS and the Environment Agency have signed a landmark Memorandum of Understanding, formally recognising more than 30 years in which the two organisations have worked together to raise standards in the pesticide supply and advice sector.

The farming conference season is in full-flow and the end of January sees beef and dairy specialists gathering in Shropshire for the British Cattle Conference.

Delamere Dairy, the UK’s speciality dairy, has been named ‘Farm Business of the Year’ at the Farm Business Food & Farming Industry Awards. 

Rea Valley Tractors (RVT) will be opening its doors on Tuesday, February 7 for its annual Spring Open Day which will be held at the Seven Acres site in Sundorne, Shrewsbury.

A new agricultural machinery dealership has opened in Shropshire.

I was pleased to see that on December 1 Her Majesty’s government came up trumps for the first time ever and our Single Payment was credited to my bank account along with the upland hill farming organic allowance

A cull of badgers will go ahead in two areas of the country as part of the government’s efforts to tackle bovine TB in cattle.